TORRANCE TRIBUNE July 27, 2017 Page 3 Up and Adam Community Briefs Providence Little Company of Mary Receives Record $20 Million Gift from Donald and Priscilla Hunt Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance has received a $20 million gift from long-time supporters Priscilla Hunt and the late Donald G. Hunt. This transformational gift is the largest in the history of Providence Little Company of Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt directed their gift to support the medical center’s ambitious Cardiovascular Center of Excellence Campaign, which is investing $35 million in new facilities and technology, and the creation of premier patient care rooms that complement the expert compassionate, quality nursing and medical care patients experience every day. This successful campaign solidifies Providence Little Company of Mary Torrance’s leadership in South Bay cardiovascular care. The hospital’s Heritage Tower will be renamed the Donald & Priscilla Hunt Tower in honor of this landmark donation. “This extraordinary gift to Providence Little Company of Mary is an inspiring demonstration of how donors throughout the years have transformed this hospital through their generosity,” said Sean Armstrong, chairman of the Providence Little Company of Mary Foundation Board of Trustees. “The Hunts believe that everyone in our community deserves access to the highest quality health care, and this generous gift ensures that South Bay residents will continue to receive world-class cardiovascular care right here in the community.” The Hunts found inspiration in Sister Terrence Landini, LCM, and the Providence Little Company of Mary promise to each patient to “know me, care for me, ease my way.” “Your core values of respect, compassion, justice, excellence and stewardship are also our core values,” stated Mrs. Hunt. “Donald and Priscilla Hunt are true visionaries whose generous support is positively impacting the health of all of our cardiovascular patients,” said Mary Kingston, chief executive, Providence South Bay Community. “This medical center pioneered advanced cardiovascular care beginning in the 1970s, and that legacy continues to this day. Thanks to their benevolence, Providence Little Company of Mary continues as a national leader in cardiovascular care.” – Content and Photo Provided by Providence Little Company of Mary Foundation Storytime in Celebration of Pop Culture at Barnes & Noble On Saturday, July 29, all young superhero fans are invited to their Barnes & Noble Del Amo for a special 11 a.m. Storytime in celebration of pop culture. Featured stories include Good Morning, Superman!, Be a Star, Wonder Woman!, and Bedtime for Batman. This Storytime event will include engaging activities to go along with each featured story, including a temporary tattoo giveaway, while supplies last. Children are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite superhero, villain or character to show their fandom. The store will also be hosting a cosplay celebration at 2 p.m. where customers are invited to showcase their cosplay creations. Activities during the cosplay event will include a “how to” workshop for novice cosplayers, a cosplay parade and a costume showcase. Customers should visit Barnes & Noble Del Amo or go online at BN.com/getpopcultured for more information. They are encouraged to post pictures of themselves having fun at Get Pop-Cultured events to their social media channels using the hashtag, #GetPopCultured. – Content: Barnes & Noble El Camino, Northrop Grumman to Sponsor “Global Innovation Summit” The El Camino College Industry & Technology Division is partnering with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS) to sponsor an exciting morning of innovation, science and creativity. The Northrop Grumman Global Innovation Summit is an intern and student demonstration activity similar to a live-action video game. The summit is scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon July 28 in El Camino College’s Murdock Stadium. The event is free and open to the public--everyone is encouraged to attend! Five teams of ECC/Hawthorne High School students and Northrop Grumman interns will battle together to save the world from simulated wildfires ravaging the planet. They’ll accomplish this feat using RC planes, quad copters, and rovers (with silly string!) they have spent their summer designing, building and flying. “This is a great opportunity for our students to incorporate their technical skills and critical thinking, along with communication and North High Saxons and Torrance Tartars Round Up Boys Volleyball Season By Adam Serrao The North High Saxons and the Torrance Tartars boys volleyball teams both came into this year’s regular season knowing that they would have a lot of work to do if they wanted to catch up to the perennial superpower of South High. While Torrance came close to catching South last year and finished in second place in the Pioneer League standings, North finished all the way down in fifth place and wound up winning just one interdivision matchup. This year it was the Saxons who made the playoff push, though, while the Tartars floundered early--and in doing so, lost their season completely. The North High Saxons lost their final five matches last year and knew that there should be a certain amount of change after what was ultimately a disappointing season. Enter new head coach Jonathan Kaneshiro. Kaneshiro certainly did his part to bring change to a struggling Saxons squad, but that change would take a while to manifest. North wound up losing its first five matches of this year’s regular season. What was worse was that in every single match, the Saxons got swept. Whether it was against El Segundo, Paramount or Bishop Montgomery, Kaneshiro and North simply could not find a way to win a set. About midway through the season, something clicked for the Saxons. The team finally got its first victory of the year over Chadwick and went on to win four of its next five matchups heading into league play. North was beginning to feel good about its performance, but still couldn’t find a way to get past West High and South High. The Saxons lost all four matchups against their rivals from those schools. North was able find success against Torrance High and Leuzinger this year, sweeping each series against both divisional rivals without even losing one set. The relative success within their own division was enough to bring the Saxons to a 3-4 record in league play (10- 13-1 overall), which was good enough for a third place finish in the Pioneer League and an entrance into this year’s CIF Southern Section Division 3 playoffs. Unfortunately for the Saxons, their seed in the playoffs landed them with a matchup against the Crean Lutheran Saints (20-12, 10-0) from Irvine. The match was short-lived, to say the least, as the Saints rolled over the Saxons in straight sets (25-10, 25-16, 25-16) to win the match and knock North High out of the playoffs. While fans of North High volleyball may think that it took their team a while to get going with five straight losses to open the year, fans of Torrance High must have been begging for a win. The Tartars volleyball team opened this season by losing their first 11 matches of the year, including every match the club competed in before league play began. Out of those 11 losses, Torrance was swept eight times to open an extremely difficult season that saw coach Nathan Jones and his team take a deliberate step back from the 17-win club of a year ago. While last year’s club may have been good, Jones and the Tartars wound up losing 10 players to graduation, including Captain Kyle Nakahira. Torrance may still have had expectations coming into this season--but with only three returning seniors to head the team, those expectations were likely going to be hard to meet, to say the least. The Tartars did finally get on the board with a win, though it took the team almost one whole month to do so with a 3-0 victory over the Leuzinger Olympians. Two victories over Leuzinger accounted for Torrance’s only two divisional wins of the season. The team wound up going 7-20 on the year for a fourth place finish, just one spot above the Olympians in the standings and well out of this year’s playoff race. It wasn’t long ago that Torrance beat out the South High Spartans and took home a Pioneer League championship in the 2015 season. That Tartars team went undefeated in league play under Jones, but wound up losing in the second round of the playoffs. Every team goes through its peaks and its times of disappointment. This year was simply a rebuilding year for a Torrance High team that will inevitably be back to make some noise in the Pioneer League sooner rather than later. The Saxons, on the other hand, have gone through their low times--especially within their own division--over the past several seasons. The team’s three victories in league play this season matched their overall win total in the Pioneer League from the previous two seasons combined. This year was also the first time that North High made the CIF Southern Section playoffs in the sport of volleyball since the 2010 season. All in all, things are looking up for Kaneshiro and his Saxons squad as the young team will look to take one step further in the right direction when they step foot on the volleyball court next season. – Asixlion@earthlink.net • DEADLINES OBITUARIES: Monday at noon. CALENDAR ITEMS: Monday at noon. PEOPLE ITEMS: Monday at noon. CLASSIFIEDS: Tuesday at noon. LEGAL NOTICES: Wednesday at 11:00 am. REAL ESTATE ADS: Monday at noon. AD CANCELLATIONS: Prior Thursday. LATE CANCELLATIONS WILL BE CHARGED 50% OF AD See Community Briefs, page 7
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